Janszoon

Green Day and Offspring like you said. But like I indicated before, even though those two brought punk some mainstream attention in the early to mid 90s, they were hardly innovators. Pop-punk existed long before them.

That may be true but hardly anyone was listening to them back then. Blink 182 didn't make it big until 1998.

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Who had perfected pop punk to the same degree Green Day did?

They're still part of that class in my book. They weren't much younger than Green Day or The Offspring, they just didn't get as much attention...

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Janszoon

The Clash, X, 7 Seconds, the Buzzcocks, the Jam, Generation X, the Ramones...

Well it's not much a class to be a part of anyway, but you should keep in mind that that Green Day and Blink 182 became popular in very different musical environments. Even though, in retrospect, it was only a couple of years, things really changed a lot from the early/mid 90s to the late 90s.

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